A lot of people manage to find common ground and not let disagreements or tensions build up and destroy them, and other people break up or get divorced. I don't think anything is ever going to change that situation. You simply try to find an accommodation and an understanding with another person and work from there.

I take responsibility for my successes as well as my failures. But when I look at my professional mistakes, I'm always left with the feeling that maybe I should have done more.

[on the birth of his son after having had two daughters] I finally got it right.

I certainly knew my father. He just didn't happen to be my biological father.

The only way to break a bad habit was to replace it with a better habit.

Kids are life's only guaranteed, bona fide upside surprise.

I would never say, "I'm retired." I believe if I decided to just not work, in six months everybody would just forget whether you were working or not.